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Ancillary Mercy

Ann Leckie

4.29 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging hopeful reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

The overall the characterizations in the second and third books took a nosedive. All nuance is gone and characters and situations became pretty black-and-white and simplistically moralistic. Never are we faced with multiple bad options and everyone seems to be a caricature. Having said that, I did enjoy it.

Now having read them all, I can easily say that this is the best of the trilogy. After all the set up in Mercy and plotting in Sword, this book has all the correct pacing and twists to make it a page turner. With new and much more interesting secondary characters, more filled out main characters and an ending that was more than acceptable, it was a pleasure to read!

llljillianlll's review

5.0
mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous inspiring tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

dharcknight's review

3.75
challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous funny hopeful reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot